The National School of Forestry is participating in Timber Festival to foster greater public awareness of how sustainable forest management defends our living planet.
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🌳 Being able to identify biodiversity is essential for the appreciation and conservation of wildlife both on a local and global scale.
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Industrial logging in the world's second largest rainforest is out of control, writes Raoul Monsembula, and spells disaster for both wildlife and forest people. There is an alternative: community forestry has just been enshrined in law. But resources must be committed to law enforcement in Congo and abroad, and to empowering forest communities.
… that legislation such as the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) , exists with the … sole purpose of preventing illegally sourced timber or timber products being placed on the European …
Civil war in Casamance, a forested area of Senegal, has been fought for 30 years, while an illegal timber trade has boomed amid the insecurity. Louise Hunt reports on how community forestry is bringing peace to the region - and restoring life to the forests.
… been fought for 30 years, while an illegal timber trade has boomed amid the insecurity. … for decades and a lucrative illegal timber trade is flourishing, fuelled by demand … in 2009 put it at 60,000 cubic meters of timber a year. "These are really old trees …
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, transport and other infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented impact on the planet, writes William Laurance. It's not that China is any worse than historic colonial powers - the difference is in the sheer scale and pace of environmental destruction, and the total lack of oversight under which Chinese mega-corporations operate.
… fossil fuels, agricultural commodities, and timber from other nations. This often involves … remote forests and savannas to transport soy, timber, and other goods to the Pacific coast, … And China is a heavy consumer of illegal timber , despite belatedly taking steps to …
As the public comes to terms with Government plans to sell public woodland, industry analysts predict much of the forest could be snapped up by energy companies looking to burn wood as a biofuel
… maturity and are ready to be cut down as a timber crop. The commission has made various … companies will bid for the commission's timber-growing sites. Conifer plantations … transfer to the private sector. 'Growing timber is a business, and we wouldn't say …
Campaign groups on the verge of leaving international diamond trade body because of failures to prevent military takeovers of mines, worker deaths and systematic smuggling
… INVESTIGATION Trade in precious minerals and timber continues to fuel violence and conflict … extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling …
YouGov poll finds 84 per cent of British public agree that woods and forests should be kept in public ownership for future generations
… would preserve the added value – beyond timber – of forests as havens for wildlife and … burn wood as a biofuel GREEN LIVING Roundwood timber framing: the greener way to build Using …
Based on current performance tropical forests, the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, are set to be reduced to species-impoverished fragments by the end of the century, writes Simon Lewis. But it's not inevitable. Decisive action by the world's governments in Paris in December could secure desperately needed change.
… too common chain of events. The first cut of timber from any natural forest is the most … encourages a second cut of less desirable timber species, without waiting for the forest …
With the deadline due this year for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
… and vegetables here, as well as trees for timber. We grew wood for businesses, for … our forest has been seriously degraded. Our timber has been destroyed and they have yet to … and vegetables here, as well as trees for timber. We grew wood for businesses, for …
By quantifying the economic benefit of its trees through air pollution, shade and flood alleviation, the English Riviera town of Torbay hopes to reverse traditional local antagonism
… to its ancient glory GREEN LIVING Roundwood timber framing: the greener way to build Using …
Over 90% of major armed conflicts between 1950-2000 occurred in countries containing biodiversity hotspots,writes Alex Reid, and more than 80% of these took place in the hotspot areas themselves. This poses a major challenge to the conservation community: to work in combat zones to strengthen environmental protection before, during and after conflicts. Or better still, to defuse incipient conflicts and resolve those under way, to reduce their toll on people, and nature.
… Provisioning services , such as food, water, timber and fibre. Regulating services which … is only guaranteed by a sustainable source of timber derived from multiple tree species; the …
Roads, mines, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure projects are fast eating into the world's 'core forests', writes Bill Laurance. These rare and precious places where wildlife and ecological processes can flourish undisturbed must come before the evanescent gains of 'development'. To save what's left, governments and funders must learn the word 'No!'
… resources, such as minerals, fossil fuels or timber, can cause nations to suffer ' Dutch … The Solomon Islands - which relies heavily on timber exports that are collapsing from …
Global study finds forests provide one-fifth of household income in rural communities and says access for them should be prioritised in REDD-type conservation projects
… one-fifth of all forest income, followed by timber (10 per cent), plants and game. Income …
A new UN report warns of a threefold increase in extraction of the Earth's primary materials between 1970 and 2010, writes Alex Kirby. The boom in the production of minerals, ores, fossil fuels, timber and biomass and will be to intensify climate change, increase air pollution and reduce biodiversity.
… production of minerals, ores, fossil fuels, timber and biomass and will be to intensify …
Bark beetles are invariably presented as terrible, forest killing pests, writes Chad Hanson. But in truth forest biodiversity depends on them to create the snags for insects to burrow in, woodpeckers to feed off, and countless birds and even pine martens to nest in. So when you hear politicians calling for bark beetle 'salvage' logging, send them off with a flea in the ear!
… some state and federal legislators and their timber industry campaign contributors, who are …
Australia's Labor scored a big win in Victoria's election this weekend - and with the party's 'green' policies that's potentially good news for the state's exploited forests. Now's the time to keep campaigning for the early creation of a Great Forest National Park.
… and safe operations of forestry in designated timber production areas; Ensure … will ensure that the primary purpose of any timber harvested from native forests is to …
Sweden's biodiverse ancient forests will be largely wiped out within two decades, writes Alec Forss - and along with it will go thousands of species that depend on mature forest ecosystems. But with powerful logging companies riding roughshod over the law, regulators, politicians and certifiers, who is to stop the destruction before it's too late?
… 1950s. With paper, pulp, cardboard, and sawn timber comprising the main products of the …
Alarming new research reveals human activity is 'devastating' plant life ahead of UN biodiversity summit, with up to twenty-two per cent of the world’s plants facing extinction
… most devastating threat to plant life, with timber and paper production significantly …
Contrary to arguments advanced in a recent Ecologist article, the biomass industry supplying the Drax power station in North Yorkshire is a model of sustainability, writes Nina Skorupska, and delivers genuine, substantial emissions reductions compared to coal.
… is instead sourced from actively managed timber producing forests in the US and EU. The …